Change Requires Effort: Change is possible. Change requires three things: a vision, a plan, and effort. It requires changing bad habits to good habits. It requires effort even when we don’t feel like working. It requires one step at a time.
**Symbolic Pictures** and meanings to help review important characters, events and places in the story.
TEST DATE: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
EXTENSION & ENRICHMENT GROUP ACTIVITIES/ OPPORTUNITIES: Students had to earn a 90% or higher on a "placement test" offered to all students on Tuesday, November 27th, in order to be eligible to participate in this group.
Summary of Miracle's Boys according toPenguin Books Winner of the 2001 Coretta Scott King award!
For Lafayette and his brothers, the challenges of growing up in New York City are compounded by the facts that they've lost their parents and it's up to eldest brother Ty'ree to support the boys, and middle brother Charlie has just returned home from a correctional facility.
Lafayette loves his brothers and would do anything if they could face the world as a team. But even though Ty'ree cares, he's just so busy with work and responsibility. And Charlie's changed so much that his former affection for his little brother has turned to open hostility.
Now, as Lafayette approaches 13, he needs the guidance and answers only his brothers can give him. The events of one dramatic weekend force the boys to make the choice to be there for each other--to really see each other--or to give in to the pain and problems of every day. Jacqueline Woodson's most recent book for Putnam was praised by School Library Journal: "This fine author once again shows her gift for penning a novel that will ring true with young adults."
Change is possible.
Change requires three things: a vision, a plan, and effort.
It requires changing bad habits to good habits.
It requires effort even when we don’t feel like working.
It requires one step at a time.
Handouts from Class:
#1- PreReading Handout
#2- PreReading Handout Part II
#3- Chapter 1 Study Guide
#4- Chapter 2 - External Characterization
#5- Chapter 3
#6- Chapter 4
#7- Chapter 5 - Internal Characterization
#8- Chapter 6 - Flashback
#9- Chapter 7 - Indirect Characterization
#10- Character Study: Ty'ree, Charlie & Lafayette-- Dynamic Character Types
#11- Literary Devices Practice: Flashback, Indirect/Direct Characterization, External/Internal Characterization
#12- Chapter 8
#13 - Chapter 9 Symbolism
#14- Chapter 10 - Idioms
#15- Chapter 11- Parts of Speech: Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adjective
"Why do Young People Join Gangs?" Article HERE. Questions HERE
#16- Chapter 12 and Chapter 13- Parts of Speech: Interjections
#17- Chapter 14 Parts of Speech: conjunctions, prepositions, Adverbs
#18- Chapter 15, 16 and 17
#19- Chapter 18
**STUDY Session Review Guide** (Study Tables in class 12/10/12)
- Exit slip used 12/10/12
**Symbolic Pictures** and meanings to help review important characters, events and places in the story.TEST DATE: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
EXTENSION & ENRICHMENT GROUP ACTIVITIES/ OPPORTUNITIES:
Students had to earn a 90% or higher on a "placement test" offered to all students on Tuesday, November 27th, in order to be eligible to participate in this group.
Summary of Miracle's Boys according to Penguin Books
Winner of the 2001 Coretta Scott King award!
For Lafayette and his brothers, the challenges of growing up in New York City are compounded by the facts that they've lost their parents and it's up to eldest brother Ty'ree to support the boys, and middle brother Charlie has just returned home from a correctional facility.
Lafayette loves his brothers and would do anything if they could face the world as a team. But even though Ty'ree cares, he's just so busy with work and responsibility. And Charlie's changed so much that his former affection for his little brother has turned to open hostility.
Now, as Lafayette approaches 13, he needs the guidance and answers only his brothers can give him. The events of one dramatic weekend force the boys to make the choice to be there for each other--to really see each other--or to give in to the pain and problems of every day.
Jacqueline Woodson's most recent book for Putnam was praised by School Library Journal: "This fine author once again shows her gift for penning a novel that will ring true with young adults."
EPISODES OF MIRACLE'S BOYS can be viewed from here!